Mac1958
Diamond Member
Well, I do like to leave a little room for the possibility that the wings will grow up a bit.Yes, too much central government is not a good thing. I'm glad to see you recognize that this exists along a continuum, that this is not binary.Our right wing is paralyzed by a binary, all-or-nothing mentality that has been drummed into them by talk radio and its resulting allies on the internet.
They simply can't comprehend shades of grey; they don't understand that an economy can have positive elements of both types of economies. To them, it can only be one or the other, that's it.
And their absolute refusal to see the obvious may be the primary driver of this increasing interest in, and openness to, socialism. Of course, they don't/won't see that, either.
.Our left wing is paralyzed by a binary, all-or-nothing mentality that has been drummed into them by CNN/PMSNBC and its resulting allies on the internet.
They don't understand that our country and economy already have too much of the central gov't dictates and control that has marked the slide of many others into the human spirit & economy crushing curse that is socialism.
And their absolute refusal to see the obvious - that it won't work next time either - is a function of their blind eagerness to install a nanny-state with cradle-grave misery for all (except the apparatchiks, or course).
And we agree that the two ends of the spectrum can be comically and transparently similar in their behaviors? That's also good to know.
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Probably something to with the fact that the "spectrum" is a circle, the two "ends" aren't "similar" in their behaviors, they're exactly the same in their behaviors (selfish, authoritarian, counter-factual and immune to reason).
"What are ya tryin' to do, make me sick?!" -- Roseanne Roseannadanna
Not much, but a little.
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